I've seen these wonderful tutorials that bloggers put together and decided I wanted to do that too. First, I decided on a relatively simple design, sketched out my general quilt design, then struggled, really struggled to make my templates for this simple (?) design. Did I need a 30 or 45 degree triangle? And what's that other thing called? I'm making notes all this time so I can prepare an easy-to-follow tutorial!
Here are the templates needed. I often use a heavy weight cardboard rather than go to the expense of having an acrylic template cut.
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Now that decision making process has passed, I made a prototype to be sure it all fit together as the math genius planned. There was just a 1/4" hanging off the odd shaped background fabric. Okay....so I'll just continue on and wing it from here.
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I continue taking pictures of my work-in-progress for this anticipated tutorial
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And here it is: All the piecing done....back selected....layered....free-motion quilted....hanging sleeve attached.....binding sewn on
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Now, all the work is done and I start writing the tutorial how-to. Step 1 went okay, even step 2....but then I got to step 3. How do you tell another how to "just wing it"? This tute might be hard to sell...do you think?
So, that's where I've been for the past several days. The result, one quilt finished. Now that's a good thing.